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By Mr. R. A. Phillips : A remarkably large and heavy form oi Helix ntmoralis 

 with double lip, from Lisdoonvarna, County Clare ; I.iinuiea involuta (? var.) from 

 Barley Lake, County Cork ; Liiiiuiea slagnalis var. fossarina from Lough Rea, 

 County Gahvay — this small form is abundant in the clear waters of the lough ; 

 and a curious monstrous form of LimuiTa pahistris from Newmarket Lake, County 

 Clare. 



By Mr. R. Standen : A fine series of the calcareous eggs of British and exotic 

 mollusca. 



By Mr. F. B. Fitzsimons : Unusually large Carditun aaileattini dredged between 

 Exmouth and Dawlish. 



By the Manchester Museum : British and foreign Planorbis, Liiinuia, Chilina, 

 and Physa ; British Vivipara, Patella, Capulus ; Irish and Continental Helix 

 neiiioriilis ; Falkland Islands mollusca ; Madeiran land shells ; Rhodesian land and 

 freshwater mollusca. 



ANNUAL REPORT. 



It is gratifying to the Council to be able to report a suljstantial increase in the 

 number of members of the Society. At the date of the last Annual Meeting there 

 were 310 names on the list ; since then 26 new members have been elected, 8 have 

 resigned, and i has died, leaving a membership of 327, or together with the 

 honorary members 337. 



Ten meetings of the Society have been held during the year from Oct. 12th, 

 1907, to Sept. 9th, 1908, at which some 36 papers contributed by 24 members 

 have been read and discussed ; many of them were subsequently published in the 

 Journal of Conchology. The exhibits at the meetings have been numerous and 

 instructive, including special exhibits of the British NassidiE, British Stenogyridce, 

 and the British RissoidiE, and the type specimens of 21 new species of mollusca 

 obtained during the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition of 1903-4, described 

 and figured by two of our members — Mr. J. Cosmo Melvill and Mr. Robert Standen 

 — in the Transactions of the Ro3'al Society of Edinburgh. Some of these species 

 had been obtained from the immense depths of 1,410, 1,775, ^"d 2,645 fathoms. 



In addition to the monthly meetings, members of the Society have taken part 

 in two rambles— one in the Grange district, and the other in the Ingleton district. 

 Valuable publications for the Library have been received from different societies in 

 exchange for \ht Journal, and an unusually large number of monographs, including 

 numerous important papers on the mollusca of the Japanese Empire, from their 

 respective authors. 



Donations to the Cabinet have been received from Messrs. G. D. H. Carpenter 

 and A. Mayfield. 



With the object of extending the usefulness of the Society, and in view of the 

 stress now laid by educationalists on the importance and value of nature-study in 

 the schools— as, for instance, in the papers read at the recent meetings of the 

 British Association in Dublin — the Council would urge upon members the desira- 

 bility of bringing the objects of our Society under the notice of the Director o. 

 Education and school-masters in charge of secondary schools in their various 

 localities. For this purpose members can always obtain a supply of nomination 

 forms and copies of the rules of the Society on application to the Secretary. 



